“You had time to contemplate its masonry/and recall that other jail, the temple/of muscle and flesh built by your trade/of bricklayer,...
2 weeks ago

Exclusive: lecturer finds 'striking similarities' between lines in Jonson's Every Man in His Humour and later Shakespeare works.
7 months ago

What did English satirists do after the archbishop of Canterbury banned the printing of satires in June 1599? They turned to the stage.
8 months ago

Ben Jonson is described as “Poet laureate of England” and a “friend/rival of Shakespeare.” The first label reflects Jonson's status as a celebrated writer.
19 months ago

A new exhibition at the Bodleian Library will explore the life of his friend and rival, Benjamin Jonson.
100 months ago

The awkward logic of Anonymous turns the initially stalwart Ben Jonson into a ludicrous double-dealer, who advances his supreme tribute (“Soul of the age!”)
156 months ago

The book is rich in detail and insights, combines meticulous research with readability, and is full of quoted examples of Jonson's inimitably muscular, pungent...
157 months ago

An almost unknown sonnet in the playbook or script of a 1603 play by Ben Jonson could be a “lost” work by William Shakespeare, according to two leading...
20 months ago

Seventeenth-century critics thought Ben Jonson England's finest writer. Even until the mid-18th century he was conventionally regarded as at...
145 months ago

Jonson's poetic response to bad reviews of his plays by 'wolf' and 'ass' praises poetry and urges a return to deeper sources of inspiration.
33 months ago